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Utopia & DYstopia
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UTOPIA & DYSTOPIA
Lisa Gehler & Marieke Lange
General Information about Utopia
• “not“ and “place“
• Ideal community or society
• Invented by Sir Thomas Morus
• Attempt to create an ideal society
• World which realizes imaginations
• Describes the future
Utopia - History
Beginn: time of the Greeks
Legends and paradises
Platon
16th century -> Thomas Morus
Tommaso Campanella
17th / 18th century -> highly deployment
19th century -> pressed by Goethe and Saint-Simon
20th century -> changing of the society
Utopia - Society
Fair allocation of goods
Allocation of economy gainful employment
Art and sience
Utopia - Technical Technical porceedings Human engineering Victory of technical instruments Promise of important theories Examples: - space flight
- internet
Thomas Morus * 7th of feburary 1478 in London † 6th of july 1535 English statesman and author Book: “Utopia“ Island Ideal society Distance world “new“ Utopia
Utopia – Literature and Films Literature Utopia ( 1516, Thomas More) The City of the Sun (1623, Tommaso Campanella) Woman on the Edge of Time (1976, Marge Piercy) Uglies (2005, Scott Westerfield)
Films Logan´s Run (Michael Anderson) Fahrenheit 451 (Truffaut)
Dystopia - Society Authoritarian or totalitarian form of goverment
Show repressive social control systems
Prove the concept of technology
General information about Dystopia
Modified form of „Utopia“
In literature: futuristic / fictional society
Dystopian stories have the intention to warn
Dystopia - History First use by John Stuat Mill in 1868
Beginn: industrial revolution (1900)
Dystopia – Literature and Films Literature Die Zeitmaschine (1895, H. G. Wells) Brave New World (1932, Aldous Huxley) Planet der Affen (1957, Pierre Boulle) Sin City (1991, Frank Miller)
Films Waterworld (1995, Kevin Costner) Minority Report (2002, Steven Spielberg) The Day After Tomorrow (2004, Roland Emmerich) Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)
Science-Fiction Genre: fiction Science and technology (future) Present / past Plot: space, imaginary world, different universe
or dimension H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds, 1898)
Delimitation: Utopia – Science Fiction
Science Fiction: technological developments Utopia: ideal society
Science-Fiction - Films Star Wars (Georg Lucas) E.T. (Steven Spielberg) Star Trek ( Gene Roddenberry)
Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction http://www.dystopiainfo.com/article.aspx?
details=1 http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/utopia/
section7.rhtml http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/writings/
utopia.html